Course teached as: - SCIENZA DELLE FINANZE 3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in ECONOMICS AND TRADE
Teaching Language - Last names M-Z
Italian
Course Content - Last names M-Z
The aim of this course is to analyse the main reasons why the State should have an economic role, both from a normative and a positive point of view. The main topics covered by the course are the fundamentals of welfare economics, market failures, voting mechanisms, fiscal policies, social welfare programmes and fiscal federalism.
PUBLIC ECONOMICS 9 CFU (Corso di laurea in Economia e Commercio)
- Balestrino, A., Galli, E., Spataro L. (2019), Scienza delle finanze, UTET.
- Bosi, P., Guerra M.C. (2019), Chapter III, Teoria dell'Imposta, in Bosi, P. (eds), Corso di Scienza delle finanze, Il Mulino, p. 147-264.
- Slides of the lectures are available on e-learning
PUBLIC ECONOMICS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 6 CFU (SECI)
- Balestrino, A., Galli, E., Spataro L. (2019), Scienza delle finanze, UTET. Part I: all chapters (Appendices Ch 3 and Ch 4 are excluded); Part II: all chapters (excluding Chapter 3 Appendices); Part III, all chapters.
- Slides of the lectures are available on e-learning
Learning Objectives - Last names M-Z
Acquired competencies at the end of the course. To be able to read and to interpret texts on public economics. To be able to interpret real economic phenomena related to the public sector by using the most important theoretical public economics models. To be able to analyse economic phenomena referred to public policies both from a normative and a positive point of view.
Prerequisites - Last names M-Z
Students must have passed the exams on Microeconomics and Macroeconomics
Teaching Methods - Last names M-Z
Lectures
Type of Assessment - Last names M-Z
Written exam with exercises and open questions. Exercises are simple applications of the concepts illustrated along the course: for example, equilibria with public and private goods; taxes and subsides when there are externalities, social preferences and decision processes, progressive and non-progressive taxation, pension systems sustainability, public debt sustainability. Open questions are related to the main theories explained in the book.
Course program - Last names M-Z
PUBLIC ECONOMICS 9 CFU (Corso di laurea in Economia e Commercio)
- Balestrino, A., Galli, E., Spataro L. (2019), Scienza delle finanze, UTET.
- Bosi, P., Guerra M.C. (2019), Chapter III, Teoria dell'Imposta, in Bosi, P. (eds), Corso di Scienza delle finanze, Il Mulino, p. 147-264.
- Slides of the lectures are available on e-learning
PUBLIC ECONOMICS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 6 CFU (SECI)
- Balestrino, A., Galli, E., Spataro L. (2019), Scienza delle finanze, UTET. Part I: all chapters (Appendices Ch 3 and Ch 4 are excluded); Part II: all chapters (excluding Chapter 3 Appendices); Part III, all chapters.
- Slides of the lectures are available on e-learning